Yup…just some good old fashioned idiocy.

in charge of making the first 12 draft picks on Monday

I decided after reading Moneyball.

bizarro world that is oh and I would take Justin Turner over Chase Utley because of durability and attitude

than on stats, plus………

Reyes is a loser who smiles too much and has no ringz

There are really that many dumb people who are paid to watch baseball?

The scouts continue to love — if we can make up a word — Jeter’s “Captain-ness.” They say he is about more than the numbers.
Scouts believe Jeter’s history of being a winning player who knows the right spot to be at all times still counts for something even with his skills decaying as his 37th birthday on June 26 approaches.

Still, the scouts liked Jeter better because, as one said, Jeter is “clutch.” Peralta entered Wednesday night hitting .280 with runners in scoring position, while Jeter is at .179 with RISP.

How about closer to home? Reyes? A healthy Reyes is dynamic. His .OPS is nearly .900 and he has scored more runs than any other shortstop in baseball. The scouts would rather have Jeter because of Reyes’ durability issues.

Jeter may not have the range, but he takes care of all the balls in front of him. This routine skill is more important with scoring down.
“It has taken on an increased premium,” a scout said.

So in sum, these scouts would rather have an over-the-hill guy who now sucks, but you can count on to suck each and every day over a guy OPS’ing .870.

that these “scouts” also prefer alex gonzales, yunel escobar, jimmy rollins, alexei ramirez and elvis andrus as well. you wanna tell me starlin castro, tulo, and asdrubal cabrera, fine. i may not agree w/ you but you still can be charitably called “lucid”. the others ahead of reyes (and hanley for that matter) is quite simply, preposterous

after my boss sent me home early on a Friday and told me to “go drink some beers or something”…but then I learn that I’m smarter than MLB scouts? Talk about a boost of the ego

that these scouts would take Alex Gonzalez over Jose Reyes. Sam had it 100% right when he said:

“The critics hide behind the veil of scouting because it is the black box of front offices. Really, they are just anti-sabermetric and often anti-intellectual, drawing on all of thecscouting communities’ credibility and none of its expertise. But proponents of sabermetrics refrain from calling these people on the carpet for fear of playing into the Moneyball stereotype of wanting scouts of baseball.
Most sabermetricians, in their heart of hearts, know that scouts have no business evaluating major league talent. Sure, a team should bring in an expert to analyze the mechanics of a broken player, but asking a scout to evaluate two free agent players is a terrible waste of man hours and can only lead to a wrong answer. Ryan Howard is better than Albert Pujols? OK, thanks for your input, please go watch some high school games.”

I just don’t get the Jeter man-crush that fans, the media and now apparantly scouts have. I just hate all the “he’s a proven winner, look at the ringZ” mentality. Would they not have won if they had Reyes or Hanley playing shortstop instead of Jeter? Come on. Teams win, not individual players. And its nice that Jeter is a leader, but how exactly does that correlate to wins? I’m not saying it doesn’t at all, but I don’t think it has nearly the impact fans, writers and scouts think. Reyes and especially Hanley have been viewed at times as immature or cocky or whatever, versus Jeters stoic personality. How much does this factor into the view of these guys? I bet this does and I also wonder also if there isn’t a little bit of xenophobia and bias towards the American Jeter. The stoic hard-working American versus the immature, cocky latin players. None of this stuff really matters when you get down to brass tacks and look at the production of these players and what they really do for their team.